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Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Well, I’m half way through the week and things are going well. I’m on my 3-day split w/ the weights and getting better and better w/ the bleachers/sprints. This morning was my 2nd session of the bleachers/sprints for the week….this time I had to do two set at a time…so still a total of 8 reps of bleachers….but just together. Then finished w/ my sprints and 1 mile cool down walk. The kids couldn’t make it this AM so their coach felt the need to take it out on me!!! Since I’m off today and the kids are making up their session this evening I’m going back for a 2nd session….It’s going to be 93 degrees so we’ll see how well I do!!

The body is holding up well. No shin splints, hamstrings are holding surprisingly well….only issue thus far is my calves and achilles tendon are way too tight so I’ve been stretching them in between sets.

These pics are from Saturday 8-15-09 which was the day after my refeed meal. I’m doing a keto style diet and I hadn’t had any starchy carbs since 8-8. I was happy that I weighed in at 136.6 Weight isn’t dropping significantly but the two ppl I send my pics to say I’m tightening up nicely. I’m still playing around w/ my side pose..so feel free to provide feedback on how it looks!!!!

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Weekly Check-In

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Keeping up w/ the weekly tradition I’ll go a head and post progress pics although I don’t have clue what show I’m preparing for, lol!! I’m just enjoying the ride and trying to come down in the most healthy fashion possible. Overall, this past week was very hard. If you’ve been keeping up w/ my journal you know I lost my IPOD on Monday!! Well, I was literally sick(mentally, not physical) all week and it took an extra, extra, extra effort to workout w/o any music!! Weights were bearable but cardio was just out right miserable!!! Our cardio equipment has the little thingy where u can plug up your earphones and listen to the TV…but, out 50 treadmills, none of them really work and it sounds like someone is hitting the delete button!! I was soooo happy when a sales rep came up to me on Friday saying she had my IPOD!! Whew, she just saved me a few 100 bucks!!!

I took my weekly progress pics on yesterday….I’m down 1 pound since last week (wish it were more) and in the past two weeks I’ve lost 3/4 in. off the boobs, 1/4 in. off the waist, and 1/4 in. off the hips….interesting how the boobs choose to come off the fastest!! I’d luv to keep the boobs and drop the fat off the abs and glutes, but oh well…it is what it is, my body is just backwards like that!!! I try not to get too caught up w/ the scale..as long as I’m loosing inches I know progress is being made!!!!

In other news…I’m hurting today. I can tolerate artificial sweetners (splenda/equal) just fine!! I’ve been having a hard time getting my water in….I noticed Crystal Light was on sale so I thought I’d give it a try. Well, it’s worked well the last two days and I’ve been getting my gallon and then some in fairly easy! Well today I guess it’s finally catching up w/ me!! My tummy is tight/almost rock hard and distended. It feels like little demons are inside my tummy just poking me w/ their finger….mom would say it’s just gas!! But ummm, I’m not burping or pooting…I’m just kinda stuck, and it hurts!! Anywho, I guess I’ll be deleting the Crystal Light b/c this is no fun!! I knew I was sensitive to sugar alcohols in candy, but like I said I hadn’t had a problem w/ equal and I can drink diet sodas w/o any problems.

That’s it for the last week!! This upcoming week should be much better since I hav my IPOD back!!

One more thing: I’m going to post 2 pics of me posing from the side. I was taught to have my arms relaxed to the side in the side pose, but I like how it looks on some competitors w/ the arm slightly back. Plz give me your opinion on which pose looks best. I think maybe my arm is just too far back and I need to be more relaxed.

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